“Defense”– Spring 2013 Digital Magazine Now Available to Read Online
Since its launch over 15 years ago, Defense continues to provide a quarterly look at major defense programs and policies, focusing on events and actions, personnel, programs, policy decisions,...
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Iron Dome: Game-changer Around Gaza
Since the beginning of what the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is calling Operation Pillar of Defense on Nov. 14, 2012, more than “500 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have struck Israel. In addition,...
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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Evolving Chinese Ballistic Missile Threat
Volumes have been written about the evolving strategic relationship between the United States and China, and much of that informed discussion has been carried on this website. And on any given day, it...
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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Responding to the Chinese Ballistic Missile Threat
As noted in earlier posts of this series on U.S. Navy missile defense, dealing with just the multi-headed hydra of the Chinese ballistic missile threat is a complex issue that belies a complete...
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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Evolving Iranian Ballistic Missile Threat
The widely discussed U.S. “pivot” to Asia is one of the strategic themes that will likely dominate at least the next several decades in U.S. military strategy, operational deployment, and tactical...
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Worldwide Missile Market: Land-Based Theater Missile Defense
Since the days of German V-2 missiles hitting London with impunity during World War II, nations have sought ways to defend against such attacks. That was the impetus for creation of the Strategic...
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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Responding to the Evolving Iranian Ballistic...
The previous post examined Iran as a threat, while this post explores U.S. and regional responses to Iran’s rapidly evolving ballistic missile development. It is important to note that the U.S....
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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Strategic Framework for Aegis BMD
As noted in previous posts of this series, the nation’s early ballistic missile defense efforts were understandably focused on protecting against large-scale missile attacks from the Soviet Union and,...
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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Air-Sea Battle Concept and Aegis BMD
In an article in Foreign Policy in October 2012, “100% Right 0% of the Time,” Micah Zenko quoted Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta as he described Pentagon priorities in an era of reduced defense...
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National Ballistic Missile Defense
Ballistic missile defense (BMD) – and especially the subcategory of national missile defense (NMD) – has become a topic of growing concern, increased national and international political argument,...
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